APPENDIX CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINE 1840. September 27, Alfred Thayer Mahan born at West Point, New York, son of Professor Dennis Hart Mahan of the U. S. Military Academy. 1854–1856. Student at Columbia College in the City of New York. 1856. September 30, entered the third class, U. S. Naval Academy, as acting midshipman. Appointed from the 10th Congressional District of New York. 1859. June 9, graduated as midshipman. 1859–1861, Frigate _Congress_, Brazil station. 1861. August 31, promoted to lieutenant. Converted steamer _James Adger_ for ten days. 1861–1862. Steam corvette _Pocahontas_, in the Potomac flotilla; capture of Port Royal, November 7, 1861; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. 1862–1863. Naval Academy at Newport, Rhode Island. First lieutenant in the _Macedonian_ during the summer practice cruise to England in 1863. 1863–1864. Steam corvette _Seminole_, West Gulf Blockading Squadron. 1864–1865. _James Adger_; staff of Rear Admiral Dahlgren, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron; _James Adger_. 1865–1866. Double-ender _Muscoota_. 1865. June 7, promoted to lieutenant commander. 1866. Ordnance duty, Washington Navy Yard. 1867–1869. Steam sloop _Iroquois_, to Asiatic station, via Cape of Good Hope. Detached in 1869; returned via Rome and Paris. 1869. Commanding gunboat _Aroostook_, Asiatic station. 1870–1871. Navy yard, New York. 1871. _Worcester_, home station. 1872. Promoted to commander. Receiving ship, New York. 1873–1874. Commanding side-wheel steamer _Wasp_ in the Rio de la Plata. 1875–1876. Navy yard, Boston. 1877–1880. Naval Academy, Annapolis. 1880–1883. Navy yard, New York. 1883–1885. Commanding steam sloop _Wachusett_, South Pacific Squadron. 1885. Assigned to Naval War College, as lecturer on naval history and strategy. 1886–1889. President of Naval War College. 1889–1892. Special duty, Bureau of Navigation. Member of commission to choose site for navy yard in Puget Sound. 1892–1893. President of Naval War College. 1893–1895. Commanding cruiser _Chicago_, flagship of Rear Admiral Erben, European station. 1895–1896. Special duty at the Naval War College. 1896. November 17, retired as captain on his own application after forty years’ service. 1896–1912. Special duty in connection with Naval War College. 1898. Member of Naval War Board during Spanish War. 1899. Delegate to Hague Peace Conference. 1906. June 29, rear admiral on the retired list. 1914. December 1, died at the Naval Hospital, Washington. ACADEMIC HONORS D.C.L., Oxford, 1894; LL.D., Cambridge, 1894; LL.D., Harvard, 1895; LL.D., Yale, 1897; LL.D., Columbia, 1900; LL.D., Magill, 1909; President of the American Historical Association, 1902.